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Recent UC Program Extra Curricular Activities

On Sept. 22, a number of UC students and the UC Director took a guided tour of Kamakura with a Meigaku faculty member. Kamakura was a center of political and cultural power in medieval Japan, and this legacy is reflected in the city's many temples and shrines. Meigaku provides these tours every semester to visiting exchange students, and this time the participants went to Kenchoji, Ennoji, Hasedera and the Kamakura Daibutsu (great Buddha).

The next day, UC students joined a group of local farmers in nearby Maioka Park to thresh rice. Unlike most city parks, Yokohama developed Maioka into an urban nature/agricultural preserve, and it allots fields and rice paddy lands to citizens who wish to experience traditional farming methods. One such group consists of Meigaku graduates, and they invite exchange student to work with them during the farming year.